The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-09
HOW 1T STARTED.

Our Crescent City Correspondent Finds n
Telling Paragraph-A Big Barn.
Correspondence Of the Pdidtkd Neirs-
CRESCENT CITY, FLA, June Z.
The following, which clip from the
WaynesvilIe, Ohio, Gazette, may inter
est your readers:
Mrs. j. A. Halsey. Tuesday of last
week, received a telegram from Key
West, Fla, telling of the death of
her sister and brother-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Baker. of yellow fever, and the
alarming illness of another sister with
tine same fearful disease. We are glad
to learn that the last mentioned sister
was, at last reports, recovering, and will
start for Ohio as soon as all danger is
past. There were but four cases of
this fatal disease in Key West,
and we understand they came
about in this way: Mrs. Ball.
sister of Mrs. Halsey, in South
Charleston, o., shipped to her sisters in
Kew West some beds and bedding, which
went by the way of Havana, Cuba, pass
ing there the very day before the quar-
| antine was established at that point, as
the sisters wrote, lone day longer and
| our goods would not have reached u.s.
| What a mercy it would have been and
| how much sorrow would have been
spared had the goods stopped forever at
the infected point.
| This. it would seem, ought to settle
the question of how the plague was in
tIoduced into Key West.
| 1t may further interest your readers to
know that in this most healthful local
ity we have the sanitariun for any who
may not feel absolutely safe in their
present localities. We do not invite any
who have been exposed to the Yellow
Jack but rather those who would avoid
the risk of becoming exposed to
it. Our Grove Hall Hotel situated
i'm the midst of one of the finest and
most heavily fruited orange groves is
new, clean, handsome, commOdious and
well kept. A recent guest, without
solicitation, so I am informed, was 81
pleased with this hOstelry that he lef
the following lines upon the register:
Il like this place and think it a pity,
That Florida isn't all u Crescent City,
There are many hotels, great and small,
But none better kept than this Grove Hall.
l would that might iinger here
Within this Eden bower,
And while away an entire year
| Instead of IA single hour.
TRAVELLER"
One of the completest barns for tn
Florida climate has just been complete,
by those superb workmen an,
contractors, Messrs. Eaton & Hutch
inson, for III. G.. Hubbard
Esq. The lower part is boarde'
Il. l. h.
extending out over all about three feet
The carriage, feed and harness room
and hay loft have close floors, while tn
stable part is outside, and SO arranged a
|. to give the animals plenty of room with
out need of their being battered in thei
various places.
: The same contractors and their assist
ants are busily engaged i'm erecting
large 24-story mansard roof Queen Ann
style) frame building on the same prem
: ises. The timbers are unusually large
! and the house will be-. without doub,
one of the best built and most complet
in all its appointments of any in Putnar
; County. Its cost will approximate $15
600. When this building is completed
E Mr.. Hubbard's place will well be wort
D visit from all Florida tourists. He ha
4 nearly every sort of fruit, shrub an
7 flower that can be grown in the State
some very rare plants from foreig
l chimes, obtained at great expense, an
all artistically planted out, with meal
derinS walks, pools, waterfalls an
. shady bowers. 1t is indeed charming
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